Angry Fat Farmer's Bell47 ploughing a field-A True Story
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On the 9 of September in 1980 on Barmby Moor in Yorkshire a Bell47G crashed whilst crop spraying at 50 knots and 4 feet of altitude due to a collapsed intake pipe from the airbox to the carburettor causing the "donkey" to stop.
Shortly afterwards Geoff Mason, the farmer and owner of the helicopter whose fields were being sprayed, waddled over as fast as he could angrily shouting at my father as he pulled himself out of the mangled wreckage with only minor bruises and scratches only to be received by the words -
"I told you to fucking spray it not plough it !"
In the first photo are a couple of mementos from the wreckage, the registration tail fin and a section of the rotor blade. This project will be an ode to that day in plastic, either in 1/35th or 1/48th scale as I have yet to decide 🙂
I also have a photo of the crash which I'll dig out soon, I just need to root through a few boxes etc. etc. etc.
anyhow, this is an idea I've been playing with for a few years now (not 37 years but maybe a 3 or 4 years)